GREAT BARRINGTON — Growing up in Chile, Christine Gevert remembers folk music was everywhere. Gevert, the founder and artistic director of the Connecticut-based music organization Crescendo, spent her ...
We know Braille as a system of writing for the blind, but it was created for music, too.Louis Braille was a musician as well ...
This Labor Day holiday weekend, Sunday Baroque is featuring some of the hardest working musicians of the 16th through 18th centuries: exceptionally prolific composers including German musician Michael ...
From cabaret to Western country to blues to pre-19th-century composers, the Beatles’ eclectic musical tastes certainly helped color their unique style. Such was the case for “Blackbird,” the third ...
Performances of Baroque-era music typically feature works by composers whose names are familiar even to first-time concertgoers. Orchestra New England‘s upcoming BaroqueFest 2011 concert program would ...
“We have music by Baroque composers with very festive trumpet and timpani and string orchestra, and contemporary repertoire [which] is fresh and atmospheric.” Alongside more recognizable instruments, ...
If you do a Google search for “Baroque composers,” of course, Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Monteverdi and Telemann come up first. Scrolling further down those result rankings are a variety of Baroque ...
The Christmas concert season in New Orleans comes to a close this evening in the Ursuline Convent’s St. Mary’s Church in the French Quarter, when Lyrica Baroque, a five-member chamber music group, ...
PARADISE — There are two upcoming concerts in Chico and Paradise for music lovers to enjoy. First up is the Paradise Symphony concert at 3 p.m. March 10 called “Around the World in 80 minutes” — a ...
Conductor Daniel Price reveres German composer Johann Sebastian Bach as one of the greats. The ChoralSong founder links Bach’s contributions to music to those of Shakespeare’s to writing, or ...
It’s possible that Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society has enjoyed the adjective “venerable” longer than any other organization in the United States. Founded in 1815, it is nearly as old as the federal ...